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Parvaim
The name of a country from which Solomon obtained gold for the temple (2 Chr 3:6). Some have identified it with Ophir, but it is uncertain whether it is even the name of a place. It may simply, as some think, denote “Oriental regions.”
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- 2 Chronicles 3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
